UAE residency through a property purchase
We will read your title deed against the conditions in force — construction, registration, share and income — and tell you which permit the property actually reaches before you pay anything.
Owner's permit
Разрешение владельца
2 years
2 года
A co-owner's share
Доля совладельца
from AED 400,000
от 400 000 дирхамов
Owner's income
Доход владельца
AED 10,000 a month
10 000 в месяц
Two-year permit fee
Пошлина за два года
AED 10,212.50
10 212,50 дирхама
When property becomes your basis
You already own something here
A deed carries no status by itself. The permit is a separate filing that reads the property, the register entry behind it and your income together.
You bought with a co-owner
Shared ownership is allowed, and it is the share that gets measured. Below the published floor a co-owner has no basis of their own.
The building is not finished
A plot of land and an unfinished unit do not open this route. The card asks for property that is fully constructed and fit to live in.
Your money is not a salary
The income test does not assume employment. Financial solvency across the whole period of residence is the alternative the card names, and it has to be evidenced.
You want the family behind you
The owner sponsors the household on this permit, parents included, and every relative is priced separately on the department's own published schedule.
What you get
- The asset tested first
- Your ownership share checked
- The right filing channel
- Two years, then renewal
- The family priced upfront
What the property has to be
Property opens two different routes, and they are separate filings with separate rulebooks. The one described here is the ordinary owner's residence: a permit granted to a foreign owner without a sponsor or a host inside the country, with the owner acting as sponsor for the household. Property from AED 2 million runs on the long-term rules instead, and that is the Golden Visa.
The asset gets examined before the owner does. Where a company is doing the buying, the deed will not stand in your own name and the condition of full personal ownership fails — the corporate side of that is company registration.
What the card measures
Five conditions decide whether a deed works. The property must be fully constructed, so bare plots are excluded. The ownership certificate has to come from the competent real-estate registration authority in the country. The property must be wholly owned by the applicant, and it must be habitable. And the applicant needs a monthly income of at least AED 10,000, or has to demonstrate financial solvency for the whole period of residence.
Whole or shared
Dubai's land department runs the owner's route as a programme of its own. It accepts an individual owner regardless of what the property is worth, and a co-owner whose share reaches AED 400,000. The permit it issues runs two years, and the owner is the sponsor named on it.
| What the deed has to show | The published condition |
|---|---|
| Construction | fully built, no bare plots |
| The title | from the registration authority |
| Ownership | wholly in the applicant's name |
| Condition of the unit | habitable |
| An individual owner's share | any value |
| A co-owner's share | from AED 400,000 |
| The owner's income | AED 10,000 a month |
| Permit issued | 2 years |
What it costs in Dubai
The department prices the two-year investor permit at AED 10,212.50. Family filings are priced per person: AED 7,382.25 for a wife or a husband over the same two years, AED 6,482.25 for a child under eighteen, and AED 7,182.25 for a daughter over eighteen or for a son over eighteen, whose permit is issued for one year. A parent's permit is a one-year filing at AED 8,882.25, and opening the sponsorship file costs AED 318.75.
Financing and the entry step
A property financed by a bank inside the country is provided for on the entry service card. An owner arriving from abroad enters on a visa that allows sixty days from the date of entry to finish the residence formalities. The land department states seven to ten business days for its own stage once the file is complete, and the residency directorate states forty-eight hours for the permit itself.
Sources: residence permit for the owner of a property (Residency and Foreigners Affairs, Dubai) and Investor Residence Application (Dubai Land Department).
Stages of work
The deed read first.
We start from the title: who is named on it, whether the unit is completed and habitable, and which registration authority issued it. Everything else follows that page.
The share and the value.
A sole owner and a co-owner are assessed differently, and a jointly held unit needs the share stated. We will say which of the two routes the deed actually reaches.
Income or solvency.
You either show a monthly income at the published level or evidence solvency across the residence period. We will pick the limb your bank statements genuinely support.
Entry, then the filing.
An owner arriving from abroad comes in on the owner's entry visa and has sixty days to complete. Someone already inside the country changes status without leaving it.
Fitness test and the card.
The examination and the identity steps run at the centres the department names, and the permit and the card come out of the same submission.
The family, then renewal.
Spouse, children and parents are filed behind you on the published per-person fees. The permit exists because of the property, so a sale is a status decision before it is a trade.
Related work on status and permits is collected under Immigration & Visas.
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